Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 04:45:04 12/03/03
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On December 03, 2003 at 06:50:38, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>On December 03, 2003 at 06:46:45, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>On December 02, 2003 at 13:38:06, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>>
>>>Now I need some source code beautifier which can produce smth like (my prefered
>>>style):
>>>
>>>if (ifClauseExample)
>>>{
>>> for (forExample = 1; ;)
>>> {
>>> if (oneLineIf)
>>> shouldLookLikeThis();
>>> }
>>>}
>>
>>I've always wondered why people like to have lines containing only a
>>brace and nothing else. It limits the amount of code you can see on
>>the screen without scrolling (or the amount of code which fits on one
>>page of a printout) without adding any information at all. It also
>>doesn't improve the readability, if you read the block structure by
>>indentation rather than by counting braces.
>>
>>I would have written the above code like this:
>>
>>if (ifClauseExample) {
>> for(forExample = 1; ;) {
>> if(oneLineIf)
>> shouldLookLikeThis(); }}
>>
>>Much more compact and readable, IMHO.
>>
>>Tord
>
>It's more a personal taste and what your are familiar to.
Yes, of course. My taste is probably influenced by the fact that my
"native programming language" is Common Lisp.
>Some people like to see
>as much as possible on the screen. Some people like to see where end what code,
>and like to see the braches above each other.
I also like to see where the code blocks begin and end, but I don't need
to the braces because of that. The block structure is visible from
the indentation. I don't even notice the braces when I read code. The
braces are there for the compiler and the editor, the indentation is
there to make the program easily readable for myself.
Tord
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